Something wonderful has happened....(pretty long...)

I have had a very hard time coming to the pets forum since Bella died. Some of you probably remember the thread right around Christmas time when we found out she had cancer....it was really rough coming through that, I felt like my heart had been ripped out. Consequently, I have not been able to come here and look at everyone's pets or posts since then, but I had to share this awesome thing, this wonderful gift that God has caused to happen in our lives.

Here is a one of the pictures that I posted in the other thread about Bella;

http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=1188843

You will notice the two Boston pups in the picture with her. I had a Boston that we had bred and Bella had wanted those pupies to be hers so bad....Ah, that's a story for another time....Anyway, obviously we had a Boston who has been with us, Bella's companion. She took Bella's death kind of hard too, she didn't know what to do with herself when she realized that Bella was gone. We have all come through and are on the other side now, it still hurts when I see Bella's pictures, but now I can think of the fun we had instead of the pain.

Ok, on to the miracle!!

About two weeks ago, Neutron~the Boston~got hit by a truck out in front of our house. She was in really bad shape, no bones broken but blood filling her lungs, heart and stomach. She was having a lot of trouble breathing, and you could hear all the fluid in her lungs when she would try to gasp for breath. The vet said that he really had no hope of her living through the night and we should prepare our family to lose her. I went home wondering why in the world would God do this to us again. Not only had we lost Bella which was enough to crush the life out of us, Neutron was being taken too. I was absolutely devistated and the only prayer that I could muster was, "Please God, don't take her too."

The next day, I called to find out if she was dead or alive, the vet said that he really didn't the she should have made it through the night, but there she was, still hanging on. He said that he really didn't think that she would make it through the day though and that we should prepare. He told me that I should probably bring her home so that we could say our goodbyes and so she could be around her family..... until...

At this point, unknown to me, our church began praying with us. I had told my friend what had happened and that God must be punishing us, so she had called the pastor's wife without telling me.

Anyway, I had to bring Neutron back in after three days if she was still alive. When I brought her in, the vet was astounded. He said that really held out no hope for her. He took a look at her, listened to her insides and told me that we were not out of the woods yet. He said he could still hear some fluid in her lungs, there still was some blood around her heart and if she was still bleeding internally that she could just go very quickly. I had to keep her still and relaxed and elevated so the fluid wouldn't drown her. If anyone has ever had a Boston you will know that herein lies the problem...How do you keep a Boston relaxed?! Even while she was in such pain she would wriggle, roll, run, and try to jump no matter what when I came in to see her!! (I had to keep her in a separate room since the boys would probably have hurt her by loving her too much.) The only thing I could do was to leave her in God's hands. I could not keep her still, and I had to hope that God was doing something because she should not have even been alive at this point.

A week ago, she developed a hernia, it kept getting larger and seemed painful to her. The doctor said that this had to be taken care of surgically because if left alone her intestines would start to come through. The price for that was right around $180, and there was just no way that we could afford that. So I prayed, not that God would heal her, but that we would be able to find the money.

Today was the day for her surgery. Guess what...her hernia was totally gone! The vet said that he had never seen anything like this in his entire life! He said that maybe sometimes, if the hernia is just fat and if the doctor is able to manipulate it that it will sometimes just go back in, but he said that Neutron's was hard and painful, not the kind that would go back in or shrink away. He was absolutely thunderstruck!! And all I could say was well, I prayed....

The whole office was stunned, they kept saying that she was a miracle dog.

Thank You Lord for Your kindness.
Raven